oddevan

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by oddevan 11y ago
As far as I can remember, yeah.
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by oddevan 11y ago
Go ahead an be pedantic; I looked up a video right after I made that comment and saw my error. :)
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by oddevan 11y ago
The story you're about to hear is a fib, but it's fact.
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by oddevan 11y ago
They're actually moving in the opposite direction. With iOS 9, you no longer need an expensive code signing certificate to load your own software onto an iPhone.
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by oddevan 11y ago
Most of my friends are (were?) on Rdio. I liked it to a point, until the music library I'd built was suddenly cut in half because reasons? Reasons pertaining to exclusivity arrangements with other services, or label agreements expiring
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by oddevan 11y ago
As someone who wrote HTML and CSS from scratch and then put a little time/effort into learning Bootstrap, I can do so much more in the same amount of time it took me to do my old layouts, and it looks so much better and is actually res
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by oddevan 11y ago
It might explain their incredibly large investment into College Football. Even other networks use ESPN to schedule games, and they own the copyright to some conferences even if they don't broadcast the game themselves.
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by oddevan 11y ago
To add a directory to a system-protected directory. It's all about protecting the integrity of the installed system. If you don't like/want it, you can reboot into recovery, disable it, and leave it that way.
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by oddevan 11y ago
OK, DDoSing and lagswitching has been a big deal in the Destiny community recently, so here's what I know: In Destiny, there's often a weekend-long PvP showdown with top-tier in-game rewards. The game type is 3v3 with no matchmaki
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by oddevan 11y ago
Also, they are still a "for-profit" entity; they just legally declare they're going to do things with said profit besides make money for the shareholders. Going full non-profit would have stricter requirements for income, mar
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by oddevan 11y ago
I think the issue in the article was that someone in the group took offense and called out said speaker on his language, and the speaker just fumbled around instead of apologizing. Even a quick "Yeah, sorry," would have at least b
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by oddevan 11y ago
Definitely the unaddressed elephant in the linked article. The mobile-first design, the '.me' address... all of this points to an answer to Square Cash.
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by oddevan 11y ago
Except for the part where he specifically mentioned Swift's ARC as something to expose Intro students to vs. Python's garbage collection?
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by oddevan 11y ago
That's a fair point. IIRC, FaceTime actually ran into patent trouble that kept it from being a P2P protocol, so they couldn't really open it up.
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by oddevan 11y ago
It's my understanding from the press release that, once the 9-month window passes, PBS will get the episodes both for broadcast and for streaming, and they'll get them for free. I might have misread, though. Regardless, they'
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by oddevan 11y ago
I know app bundles were introduced in the iOS App Store and some developers had started using them as a hack around "paid upgrades." Given that they didn't get a mention in the original post, I'm assuming they don't
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by oddevan 11y ago
So I'd be able to use these to watch old Homestar Runner cartoons? Sweet.
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by oddevan 11y ago
Agreed. I like Apple more than most but... C'MON, GUYS! They've already got the technology in iTunes Match and it works pretty well. No clue why they didn't use it for this, especially when the whole "iCloud Music Librar
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by oddevan 11y ago
"One foot out the door"? "Mentally absent"? "Checked out"? Whatever it is, I'm familiar.
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by oddevan 11y ago
I thought the accepted definition was a company whose only source of revenue was patent licenses and lawsuits, not products or services based on said patents.
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by oddevan 11y ago
My money's on someone running a Plex server (or something similar) on their own machine, then going to reddit and saying "I have a copy of [X], you can watch it here:" with a link to 127.0.0.1 (since that's how they wa
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by oddevan 11y ago
I'll second this. There's large parts of internet culture that exists in flash animations. DeviantArt, Newgrounds, and of course Homestar Runner...
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by oddevan 11y ago
There was never any "official" 3rd party access to the API other than an "add article" action. And when the API was made available, it was only to subscribers since the main revenue stream was sales of the official app.
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by oddevan 11y ago
I'm with you on Beats 1. I'm really digging the London DJ's show so far. I have to hope there's some sort of skunkworks project in Apple to replace iTunes; it's got too many little moving parts that are all essentia
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by oddevan 11y ago
I totally get the major labels making the 1.5% increase/3-month trial concession; but after nearly every independent artist I pay attention to basically said they couldn't/wouldn't make the same concession, I'm glad
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by oddevan 11y ago
This. I think Apple is convinced that 3 months is enough time to get customers in the HABIT of using their service such that they'll look at the new $10 charge on their iTunes bill, shrug their shoulders, and go back to listening to mu
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by oddevan 11y ago
Every address I give out is one of my own domains. Mostly they redirect to my gmail account, but this way I can change to a different provider or suddenly spin up my own mail server and no one has to update their address book. Edit to add:
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by oddevan 11y ago
An unlocked door is not in itself permission to enter a house. Bad or no security is not in itself permission to enter. Yes, the Astros do bear some responsibility to make sure things are not easily accessible. That doesn't change the
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by oddevan 11y ago
The Mac will never move the needle as much as the iPhone is right now, and that's ok. Jobs said that traditional computers are like trucks: not everyone needs them, but those that do really use them. So if Apple is like Ford, then just
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by oddevan 11y ago
I don't know the details, but I know they emphasized that the three(!) platforms share a lot of common frameworks/foundation. Basically, when the iPhone was introduced, Jobs said "iPhone runs OS X." That hasn't chan

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